Princess Hilda of Anhalt-Dessau
| Princess Hilda | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Hilda around 1865 | |
| Born | 13 December 1839 Dessau, Anhalt-Dessau, German Confederation |
| Died | 22 December 1926 (aged 87) Dessau, Germany |
| House | Ascania |
| Father | Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau |
| Mother | Princess Marie Luise of Hesse-Kassel |
Princess Hilda of Anhalt-Dessau (13 December 1839[1] – 22 December 1926) was a member of the House of Ascania by birth. She was a leader in the Dessau of the Deutscher Krieger-Hilfsbund (German War Auxiliary Corps).
Biography
[edit]She was the third child of the marriage of Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau and Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel. Her father was the son of Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau and Princess Amalie of Hesse-Homburg, and her mother was the daughter of Prince William of Hesse-Kassel and his wife, Princess Charlotte of Denmark.[2]
She is one of the sisters who contracted marriages with German princes:
- Adelheid-Marie (1833–1916), married in 1851 to Adolphe, last Duke of Nassau and later, first Grand Duke of Luxembourg. From her descends the current Grand Ducal House of Luxembourg.
- Bathildis Amalgunde (1837–1902), married on May 30, 1862, to prince Prince William of Schaumburg-Lippe, son of George William, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippee. Her eldest daughter, Charlotte of Schaumburg-Lippe, married William II of Württemberg, the last king of Wurtemberg.
Along with her mother and some of her sisters, she went on several trips around Europe. For example, in 1884, Hilda, her mother and Bathildis, went to Florence where they met with the family of her cousin the Duchess of Teck, including her daughter Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, who would be later be queen consort of the United Kingdom.[3] In 1890, together with her sister Bathildis, they visited the bathing station in Bad Kissingen.[4]
In 1905 her lady-in-waiting (hofdame) was the baroness von Heynitz.[5]
During the First World War she participated as leader in Dessau of the Deutscher Krieger-Hilfsbund (German War Auxiliary Corps). This organization was dedicated to providing aid to German soldiers returning from the front in a precarious situation.[6]
Hilda never married and died in Dessau in 1926 aged 87.
Ancestry
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Anhalt". Almanach de Gotha for 1914. Almanach de Gotha (in French). 1914. p. 3.
- ^ "Staats- und Adreß-Handbuch für die Herzogthümer Anhalt-Dessau und Anhalt-Köthen: 1851". Staats- und Adreß-Handbuch für die Herzogthümer Anhalt-Dessau und Anhalt-Köthen. 1851. p. 6.
- ^ Pope-Hennessy, James (1959). "Book I. Princess May. Chapter five. Exile to Florence.". Queen Mary, 1867-1953. p. 121.
- ^ "Der Fürstensaal im Bahnhof Bad Kissingen" (PDF) (in German).
- ^ "[Fremden-Liste]". Altausseer Fremdenliste. 13 September 1905.
- ^ Decker, Horst. "Deutscher Krieger-Hilfsbund - Versorgung kriegsbedingt verarmter Soldaten". www.profilm.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-08-25.